Satay is a grilled meat dish famous throughout Southeast-Asia. Indonesians consider it a national dish conceived by street vendors. These tasty meat skewers are most popular with chicken, beef also lamb or mutton. We also have vegetarian satay version use tofu and tempeh instead of meat.

Traditionally it served with white steamed rice or cake rice (Ind; ketupat and lontong).

And generally it served with fresh cucumber pickle as well. Some area (like Madura island) serve together with bone soup or in middle Java serve this satay with gulai tongseng.

So if you want this satay in quick, you should prepare your white rice or cake rice in advance. Also you need to make peanut sauce and fresh instant cucumber in ahead.

In Indonesia it self there are many types of satay from various regions and of various ingredients. For example, from Padang city (Sumatra), I likesatay Padang. There are also "sate kelapa" (beef satay wrapped with grated coconut-My best favorite)-it's mostly common from Madura Island, quail eggs satay, clam satay, 'tempeh' and tofu satay or mushroom satay for vegetarian option.

And there are dozens of other types of satay (which is nearly I have eaten already).

Personally İ enjoy my macarons with dark Turkish coffee or just regular espresso.Mostly at afternoon at 4 p.m , watching my favorite TV program or just wandering around then lost in the internet 😃What do you see in the internet that can make you forget the time- or forget how many macarons did you eat already?... 😄İ lost my self in the web world anytime İ click anything about cooking, start from bakeware sale until food photography.And İ love crafting like crocheting, so İ mostly drifting away searching hundreds of patterns.. 😊Eniweeeeyyy...my today post is my latest macarons baking. Yep... İ enjoy to eat them as much as İ love to bake them. Give me a pro camera then İ will capture them in many styles! 😊They are so adorable in front of camera, don't you think so?

What is macarons?Macarons, a sweet treat meringue-based confection made of egg white, sugar, icing sugar, almond powder, and sometimes food coloring is added. The confection is characterised by smooth, squared top, ruffled circumference (referred to as the "foot" or "pied"), and a flat base. It is mildly moist and easily melts in the mouth. Macarons can be found in a wide variety of flavors that range from the traditional (raspberry, chocolate) to the new (foie gras or matcha).

Bread or ekmek we call in Turkish language, is staple of all food in Türkey as well very much important in Turkish culture. Not just bread, we treat our food with respect. Wasting foods (bread) is disrespect and günah or sin.Eat and finish what you take.Bread is always on our dinner table. Serve morning to evening. Dip in a hot creamy soup, eaten with turkish köfte (meatball) in between or any meal. Or just simply spread with salça (homemade tomato paste) for hurry brunch.You can find dozen type of ekmek/ bread in market or local fırın (bakery) which always serve fresh and hot bread from traditional big stone oven. And there is one bread that special baked at special occasion, Ramadhan or Ramazan. İt's Ramazan pidesi.

There are many classic dishes that are associated with Ramazan in Turkey. But no other item signifies the breaking of the fast better than a loaf of pide (read; pee-deh).Ramazan pidesi, it's round and rather flat in form, and having a weave-like patterned crust shape by fingers.

Ramazan pidesi is made of wheat flour with yeast, rub with egg wash and topped with sesame and black sesame seed.

It is traditionally served for the iftar and sahur meals during the holy month of Ramadanis highlight bread in turkey during Ramadhan month.

Bakeries all over Turkey provide this Ramazan pidesi hot and fresh about an hour or two before iftar time. So you will see a long queue in front of fırın/ bakery before iftar time to get this delicious pide hot from oven during the month of Ramadhan.

Hello everybody....Merhaba from Türkiye.For some people eating offal or other part of animal sounds gross. Or maybe some of you just don't know how to prepare or cook them.Offal could be delicious as normal meat if we know how to cook it, for example cow's feet (or legs) or (beef) tongue. You can be hooked once you taste delicious meal using those animal part because it prepared correct and cook it clever way. Today İ am going to share a tip how to prepare and cook beef tongue. Beef tongue is lean meat that can be very tasty. But when you didn't cook it properly it can be pretty chewy and almost rubbery.Since it's quite lean as İ mentioned above, it'll took sometimes to cook to have butter-soft texture which we look for. Some said 30 minute per pound, some said an hour. Personally İ didn't really using timer or whatsoever, İ just cooked and check my beef (ox) tongue periodically and test it by insert a big fork in thickest part of tongue, when it easily slip off from the fork it' done.

Merhaba from Türkiye Everybody....... SelamMe and red velvet cake is like friend in exploratory stage 😃. İ enjoy and baking this cake since long time ago but still İ need to explore it more and try get along with it often 😊Yes.. İ can't denied that İ fall in love in this red velvety color cake, with delicious slightly tangy of cream cheese frosting.İ baked many RVC before and still want to bake more 😏You can check my Cheesecake between Red Velvet cake here, or try my unique Steamed Red Velvet Brownie here- you'll get shock how it easy to make and so delish! And if you want to impress your family with Swiss Roll Cake.. you should try my Red Velvet Cake roll here.

And today İ'll post my favorite Red Velvet Cake again. İ baked this seriously moist and delicious Red Velvet cake my my kid's birthday 🎂. And since this cake for her she was the one who decorated the cake with small colorful heart candy 😍 . her fave.İ didn't decorate much, just thinly cover the cake with my cream cheese frosting, piped some star shape and using cake's crumb to make it more nice 😊For the cake İ use 2 deep pans with diameter 18cm (about 8") and cut each cake into two. İ wrapped my baked cake with plastic film after cool and keep in refrigerator over night before frosting.

Knowing about Turkish foods is like reading history book, so old with many surprising delicious fact. İt might because mostly Turkish cuisine is the heritage of Ottoman cuisine from centuries ago. It is also has mixture and refinement of Central Asian, Middle Eastern and Balkan cuisines. Therefore it is impossible to fit Turkish cuisine into a short list.İncluding my post today is one of daily meal which mostly Turkish mothers serve for the family. Köfteli patates is home style meal that served generation to generation. Every kids fan of their mom's version of this food 😍

İt's a potato cook in tomato sauce, adding small meatball to meet the family taste. Some version adding ground beef instead of meatballs. Sprinkle with dried mint leaves this meal is a must to try when you visit Turkiye.

Plum sauce, is one of staple condiment in Asian cuisine. İt's sweet and sour basic sauce can be used for cooking or dipping sauce such as spring roll, dumpling, fried chicken, roasted duck and more.Store bought plum sauce mostly has viscous brown to dark brown in color. Unlike when we make it at home, the color tends to light red to dark one.. just like plum's color.İ have no idea what kind of plum used for making plum sauce at manufacture so they can produce light brown to dark brown color.

But for sure my homemade plum sauce is definitely make from fresh plum, rich with spices and guaranteed keeper recipe for staple condiment for your pantry.So if you are Asian food lover or want to have something go along with your dimsum or roasted duck/ chicken.. make sure you keep this recipe ✍

Not so hot summer this June. And İ love it. Even İ am tropical person, summer in Turkey could be pretty much dry and boring. İ live in Marmara region and rain comes like every 2 or 3 days, so refreshing.

Just like this weekend, cloudy so heavy cloudy.

And to cheer up our gray week end İ was thinking to make something wonderful chocolaty sweet thing. something fast and easy to make yet everybody would love to enjoy it.

Yep.. brownie. Also İ didn't bake it for quite sometime after I got my toothache few months ago.

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Welcome to my humble blog or you can say in Indonesian-Selamat datang. Or hoşgeldiniz in Türkçe.

Spent my years in my homeland Indonesia. And now marrying a wonderful Turkish man and staying in Bursa-Turkey since 2009. A mom from one very cute girl. Simple yet open minded in person. Love to cook since I was a kid in my beloved Surabaya city. Spent some years in Jakarta for my previous academic career as Quality Control asstn manager.

Enjoying city walk and travelling, food adventurer, small crafting projects and writing (fiction in my younger age). Now my blog is my favorite place to express my devotion of writing- mostly now about foods I serve for my mix culture family and small project for my kid and my personal hobby.I started this page since 2010. At first this web address was: http://c1tr4sinau.blogspot.com before I changed into: http://myhomediaryinturkey.blogspot.com

My original language is Indonesian, so kindly forgive my poor English or even Türkçe.Contact me: benim.citra@gmail.com